Investigating the effectiveness of critical literacy approach in developing efl students̓ critical reading skills

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at enhancing EFL learner's critical reading skills using critical literacy approach.

The study used a quasi-experimental method.

The participants were a group of 56 students are second-year English majors at Misr University of Science and Technology (MUST).

The researcher's students during the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021.

Students of One class (28 students) were treated as the experimental group and the other played the role of the control group (28 students) were chosen to implement the research experiment.

Results revealed that there is a statistically significant difference between the mean score of the experimental group students and those of the control group of post-test in favor of the experimental group.

There was an improvement of students' achievement in critical reading skills in both classes.

However, the students in the experimental group achieved better compared to the control group.

This indicates that the literacy approach that occurred in the experimental group had a significant effect on EFL students̓ critical reading skills.